Patents by Inventor Kazuaki Takano
Kazuaki Takano has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20200239369Abstract: Provided are electrofused alumina grains capable of preventing grain binding on production and of achieving high grinding performance. The electrofused alumina grains of the present invention contain at least either one of tungsten or molybdenum.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2018Publication date: July 30, 2020Applicant: SHOWA DENKO K.K.Inventors: So MIYAISHI, Kazuaki TAKANO, Satoshi YAMAOKA
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Patent number: 7570197Abstract: One of the objects of the present invention is to reduce the size of a radar device mounted on a vehicle body. To achieve the object, one aspect of the invention provides a radar device, which is mounted on a vehicle body and detects a target present in a moving direction of the vehicle body, with (1) a transmitting antenna for transmitting a mm-Wave that forms an electric field having a width equivalent to the width of the vehicle body at a position away in a moving direction of the vehicle body by a distance corresponding to the most-approached distance defined between the vehicle body and the target and (2) two receiving antennas for receiving the reflected mm-Waves at mutually different positions.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2001Date of Patent: August 4, 2009Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuaki Takano, Jiro Takezaki, Hiroshi Kuroda, Hiroshi Kondo
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Patent number: 7283089Abstract: A power supply apparatus controls the gate and drain power supplies at the rise time so that an output voltage of the gate power rises earlier than that of the drain power supply. Another power supply control apparatus controls the gate and drain power supplies at the fall time so that an output voltage of the gate power supply fails later than that of the drain power supply. Another power supply control apparatus turns off the drain supply of the FET among power supplies when it is detected by a voltage monitor whenever either of output voltages or the power supplies are not within said specified range.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2006Date of Patent: October 16, 2007Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuto Nakamura, Ryuji Fukute, Atsushi Okonogi, Kazuaki Takano
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Patent number: 7283303Abstract: A conductive anti-reflection coating has a surface quarterwave layer that is broken up into smaller portions by inserting one or more thin layers of conductive material in the dielectric material. The resulting stack of alternating layers of a dielectric material and an electrically conductive material provides a solid electrical contact to the buried conductive layer and exhibits a low surface contact resistance.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2004Date of Patent: October 16, 2007Assignee: JDS Uniphase CorporationInventors: Kazuaki Takano, Andrew John Church, Thomas R. Jones, Brad Scott Tarter
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Publication number: 20070085731Abstract: A power supply apparatus controls the gate and drain power supplies at the rise time so that an output voltage of the gate power rises earlier than that of the drain power supply. Another power supply control apparatus controls the gate and drain power supplies at the fall time so that an output voltage of the gate power supply fails later than that of the drain power supply. Another power supply control apparatus turns off the drain supply of the FET among power supplies when it is detected by a voltage monitor whenever either of output voltages or the power supplies are not within said specified range.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2006Publication date: April 19, 2007Applicant: HITACHI LTD.Inventors: Kazuto NAKAMURA, Ryuji FUKUTE, Atsushi OKONOGI, Kazuaki TAKANO
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Patent number: 7162141Abstract: The present invention relates to an electro-conductive, anti-reflection coating with the conventional half-wave, high-index layer sandwiched between two quarter-wave, low-index layers, in which the high-index, half-wave layer forms an electro-conductive layer, and in which the layer materials are selected such that an index ratio (high index/low index) is between 1.45 to 1.55 providing wide band widths for the anti-reflection coating. Preferably, the half-wave, electro-conductive, high index layer comprises indium titanium oxide providing a sheet resistance of less than 20 ohms/sq.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2005Date of Patent: January 9, 2007Assignee: JDS Unipahse CorporationInventor: Kazuaki Takano
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Patent number: 7158074Abstract: To provide a radar system for controlling a gate power supply and drain power supply of a MMIC (microwave monolithic IC), protecting the MMIC at the time of start and shut-off, and simultaneously avoiding an occurrence of a failure in the MMIC due to a residual charge and an abnormal supply potential at the time of shut-off. A power supply control means controls the gate and drain power supplies at the rise time so that an output voltage of the gate power supply rises earlier than that of the drain power supply. Another power supply control means controls the gate and drain power supplies at the fall time so that an output voltage of the gate power supply falls later than that of the drain power supply. Another power supply control means turns off the drain power supply of the FET among power supplies when it is detected by a voltage monitoring means that even either of output voltages of the power supplies is not within said specified range.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2004Date of Patent: January 2, 2007Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuto Nakamura, Ryuji Fukute, Atsushi Okonogi, Kazuaki Takano
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Patent number: 7142151Abstract: In order to magnetically shield the transmission line which connects the external connector mounted on the outer housing with the internal circuit and also to make it possible to freely mount the external connector without being limited by the position of the internal circuit, an outer housing 60 consists of an outer housing main body 61 and a shielding layer 62 applied to the inner-periphery surface of the outer housing 60. An transmission line 73 extends from the internal circuit through the outer-periphery side of the shielding layer 62 of the outer housing 60 along the shielding layer 62 to the desired position, where the external connector 70 is placed.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2005Date of Patent: November 28, 2006Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Mitsushige Suzuki, Kazuaki Takano, Ryuji Fukute
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Patent number: 7136736Abstract: In a vehicular control device, it is necessary to measure or calculate six physical quantities-forward-reverse speed, left-right speed, vertical speed, pitch angle, roll angle, and angle of sideslip-representing vehicular movement and to control the braking force of each wheel and/or the damping coefficient of each suspension shock absorber in order to further shorten braking distance particularly at the time of braking and to prevent spin at that time. In this case, it is necessary to furnish sensors to measure speed and angle directly. In the present invention, four radar sensors are used in order to directly measure the forward-reverse speed and the left-right speed. Also, the vertical speed, the pitch angle, the roll angle, and the angle of sideslip are indirectly measured from the output of the radar sensors.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2003Date of Patent: November 14, 2006Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Satoru Kuragaki, Tokuji Yoshikawa, Shiho Izumi, Hiroshi Kuroda, Takao Kojima, Toshimichi Minowa, Toshio Manaka, Nobuyuki Ueki, Kazuaki Takano
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Patent number: 7136013Abstract: In a radio wave radar system using a two-frequency CW modulation method, it is possible to detect a distance between a host vehicle and a forward vehicle and to realize a stable ACC following travel, even in a condition in which the relative speed is 0. By combining the two-frequency CW modulation method with the frequency pulse CW modulation method, that is, by using combination with the two-frequency CW method when the relative speed occurs and the frequency pulse CW method when the relative speed is close to 0, even if the relative speed is 0, the IF signal obtained from the reflected wave from the forward vehicle can be generated to detect the existence of the ACC target vehicle, so that it is possible to realize a stable ACC following travel.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2003Date of Patent: November 14, 2006Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiko Hanawa, Hiroshi Kuroda, Kazuaki Takano
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Patent number: 7126525Abstract: A millimeter-wave radar has a radome or radar cover including a layer, the dielectric constant of which is a greater than that of the other portion without the layer, or including a magnetic loss layer in an appropriate position with respect to the antenna. The dielectric constant of the radome or radar cover can be made higher in a portion corresponding to the side of the antenna than in a portion corresponding to the front of the antenna.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2004Date of Patent: October 24, 2006Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Car Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mitsushige Suzuki, Kazuaki Takano
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Patent number: 7091900Abstract: A radar of the present invention has: (1) an antenna unit for transmitting a radio wave and receiving a reflected wave of the radio wave; (2) rotating means for rotating the antenna unit about an axis along a direction of transmitting the radio wave; and (3) control means for detecting an azimuth of a target from the reflected wave, the azimuth using the axis as a reference and being defined in a plane determined from a posture of the antenna unit and the axis.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2002Date of Patent: August 15, 2006Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuaki Takano, Hiroshi Kuroda
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Patent number: 7084761Abstract: There is provided a device in which surroundings of a building can be monitored using a sensor; when detecting an intruder, an object can be detected even in the case of bad weather; and a predetermined area can be monitored using as few sensors as possible. The device includes a security system which emits a radio wave from a building to a predetermined area outside the building to detect an object, and on the basis of output of the object detecting unit, a judgment is made as to whether or not the object will intrude into the predetermined area.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2002Date of Patent: August 1, 2006Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Shiho Izumi, Hiroshi Kuroda, Satoru Kuragaki, Kazuhiko Sato, Terumi Nakazawa, Kenichi Mitzuishi, Kazuaki Takano, Mitsuhide Sasaki, Hiroshi Kondoh, Mikito Tsubota
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Patent number: 7061424Abstract: The present invention provides a radar device mounted on a moving object that moves along a continuous plane, having (1) a transceiver part for transmitting a signal having a main lobe in the direction of the movement of the moving object and a side lobe directed towards the continuous plane, that receives a first reflection signal from a target in the direction of the main lobe and a second reflection signal from the continuous plane in the direction of the side lobe, and (2) control processing means for detecting the frequency of a beat signal of the second reflection signal received by the transceiver part and the signal emitted by the transceiver part and for detecting information correlated to the attitude of the radar device with respect to the continuous plane based on that frequency. This enables detection of changes of mounting attitude for the moving object without requiring additional hardware.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2002Date of Patent: June 13, 2006Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Kuroda, Kazuaki Takano, Fumihiko Okai
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Patent number: 7023376Abstract: The invention provides a radar that transmits a radio wave and receives an echo of the radio wave, which is characterized by possessing (1) a reception means that detects a beat signal of the echo and the radio wave, (2) a first frequency analysis means that analyzes the beat signal into frequency components, and detects a peak signal of frequency spectra obtained thereby, and (3) a second frequency analysis means that analyzes the beat signal into frequency components with a frequency resolution different from that of the first frequency analysis means, and detects a peak signal of frequency spectra obtained thereby.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2000Date of Patent: April 4, 2006Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Kuroda, Kazuaki Takano, Mitsuru Nakamura
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Patent number: 7019685Abstract: In order to magnetically shield the transmission line which connects the external connector mounted on the outer housing with the internal circuit and also to make it possible to freely mount the external connector without being limited by the position of the internal circuit, an outer housing 60 consists of an outer housing main body 61 and a shielding layer 62 applied to the inner-periphery surface of the outer housing 60. An transmission line 73 extends from the internal circuit through the outer-periphery side of the shielding layer 62 of the outer housing 60 along the shielding layer 62 to the desired position, where the external connector 70 is placed.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2003Date of Patent: March 28, 2006Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Mitsushige Suzuki, Kazuaki Takano, Ryuji Fukute
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Publication number: 20060023131Abstract: A conductive anti-reflection coating has a surface quarterwave layer that is broken up into smaller portions by inserting one or more thin layers of conductive material in the dielectric material. The resulting stack of alternating layers of a dielectric material and an electrically conductive material provides a solid electrical contact to the buried conductive layer and exhibits a low surface contact resistance.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2004Publication date: February 2, 2006Applicant: JDS Uniphase Corporation, State of Incorporation: DelawareInventors: Kazuaki Takano, Andrew Church, Thomas Jones, Brad Tarter
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Patent number: 6972710Abstract: In an automotive radio wave radar, a center frequency of a transmitted wave is shifted at a certain cycle, and position information of an obstacle detected at three or more center frequencies is subjected to decision by majority to determine whether detection results of the obstacle are erroneous with the occurrence of jamming. If any of the detection results is determined to be abnormal, the abnormal result is discarded. An automotive radio wave radar is realized which can correctly perform the obstacle detection even in the event of jamming without causing erroneous obstacle detection or omission of the detection.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2003Date of Patent: December 6, 2005Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Shigeaki Matsubara, Kazuaki Takano, Hiroshi Kuroda
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Publication number: 20050242986Abstract: In a radio wave radar system using a two-frequency CW modulation method, it is possible to detect a distance between a host vehicle and a forward vehicle and to realize a stable ACC following travel, even in a condition in which the relative speed is 0. By combining the two-frequency CW modulation method with the frequency pulse CW modulation method, that is, by using combination with the two-frequency CW method when the relative speed occurs and the frequency pulse CW method when the relative speed is close to 0, even if the relative speed is 0, the IF signal obtained from the reflected wave from the forward vehicle can be generated to detect the existence of the ACC target vehicle, so that it is possible to realize a stable ACC following travel.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2003Publication date: November 3, 2005Inventors: Kazuhiko Hanawa, Hiroshi Kuroda, Kazuaki Takano
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Publication number: 20050174280Abstract: In order to magnetically shield the transmission line which connects the external connector mounted on the outer housing with the internal circuit and also to make it possible to freely mount the external connector without being limited by the position of the internal circuit, an outer housing 60 consists of an outer housing main body 61 and a shielding layer 62 applied to the inner-periphery surface of the outer housing 60. An transmission line 73 extends from the internal circuit through the outer-periphery side of the shielding layer 62 of the outer housing 60 along the shielding layer 62 to the desired position, where the external connector 70 is placed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2005Publication date: August 11, 2005Inventors: Mitsushige Suzuki, Kazuaki Takano, Ryuji Fukute